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iOS on Rails

iOS on Rails

The reference for writing superb iOS apps with Ruby on Rails backends.

This book is really two books in one.

The the first book covers building a backend API in Rails. We will demonstrate how to create a robust, clean, flexible JSON API. Along the way, we’ll discuss different approaches that we didn’t choose and discuss their drawbacks.

The second book walks you through creating an iOS application in Objective-C that uses the Rails API you just created. You’ll learn how the intelligent API choices made in the first section make iOS development far easier.

Who is this book for?

This book is for a developer who wants to build an iOS application with a Rails backend. It’s best suited for a developer with some Rails experience and little iOS experience. It’s also a book for both a Rails developer and an iOS developer to share and use in concert to build an app together.

The approach shared in this book is the result of our own experiments as Rails and iOS developers working together to build an application. The Rails portions of this book assume a basic working knowledge of how to build a web application with Rails as well as the Ruby programming language. The iOS portions of this book assume a basic working knowledge of how to build an iOS application as well as the Objective-C programming language.

More than just a book

In addition to the book (in HTML, PDF, EPUB, and Kindle formats), you also get two complete example applications: the iOS client app and the Rails server application. What the book describes and explains, the example apps demonstrates with real, working code. The apps are up to date for Rails 4 and iOS 8.

The book is written using Markdown and distributed via GitHub. When you purchase, we give you access directly to the repository, so you can use the GitHub issues features to give us feedback about what we’ve written and what you’d like to see.

When you purchase iOS on Rails, you get access all future updates to the book and example applications.

Current Contents

Introduction

Why this book?

Who is this book for?

Rails

Introduction to our example application and setup

Creating a GET request

Creating a POST request

Creating a PATCH request

Creating a geocoded GET request

iOS

A New Xcode Project

Alpha and Beta Schemes

Managing Dependencies

The Mobile App’s Skeleton

The Map View Controller

The Event View Controller

Displaying Events on a Map

Finishing Touches and Future Challenges

Connecting the Two

Building a Rails API Client

The User Object

Posting a User

The Event Object

Posting an Event

Getting Events in an Area

Additional Sections on AFNetworking in the Github Repo

iOS on Rails is written by Diana Zmuda and Jessie Young.

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